LOCAL NEEDS

 Bread of Life Soup Kitchen

On the first Wednesday of each month, MZSL folks prepare and serve a hot meal to the good folks at the Bread of Life Soup Kitchen in Montezuma, Ga, the town across the Flint River from Ogelthorpe. This is an Ecumenical ministry, with members of many area churches working together to provide a weekly hot meal for the hungry who drop-in, no questions asked!

  The Oaks Nursing Home

On the Third Wednesday of each month at 10:00 a.m, a small group of us carpool to The Oaks Nursing home.  There we have a hymn sing from 10:30 to 11:30am, with the residents calling out their favorite hymns for us all to sing together.  The residents look forward to this time of praising God with song, and so do we! We get back to the church around noon, with smiles on our faces. 

Adopt a Highway Cleanup

Several times a year we gather at the Mt Zion Lutheran Church Cemetery Site to cleanup Highway 26. It is a labor of love to protect the earth and resources God has given us.



 Quilting:

Quilts are used for warmth, for carrying children or gathering fuel, for shelter from the weather or shade from the sun and in any number of creative ways by those who gratefully receive them. 

Once a year, we gather the assembled quilts, bless them for their journey and take them to a distribution center for LWR, where they are sent to the people who need them. 

 

 Foster Children's Ministry

Each year at Christmas time, MZSL joins with the The Methodist Church to purchase good quality toys for the Foster Children in our community.  We take turns holding a pizza party at our churches, where the gifts are distributed by Santa!  Last year we gifted 65 children!